Sentences with phrase «more schools around the country»

The funds will be used to help expand the program to more schools around the country.

Not exact matches

The company does offer team discounts for high school squads, though, and Marver says more than 400 teams around the country have placed orders for the upcoming season.

Times reporter Kim Severson mentioned in passing that Chef Ann Cooper, a pioneer in school food reform, was about to launch a series of video courses to help school professionals around the country bring more scratch - cooking to their meal programs.

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Do we really want these additives appearing more frequently in the milk offered in school cafeterias around the country, without adequate labeling?

By now you have seen and heard about the outcry from parents and students around the country to ban «finely textured lean beef trimmings» or more commonly «pink slime» from school lunches.

the need for Congress to provide funding to upgrade school kitchens around the country, many of which can do little more than deep fry and reheat;

«There are examples around the country where progress is being made,» says Alicia Moag - Stahlberg, a dietitian who has worked to develop more nutritious lunches in Chicago schools.

DonorsChoose.org, which was founded in 2000 and has funded more than 328,000 projects proposed by more than 137,000 teachers in more than 46,000 schools around the country, Wednesday launched a new donor site — DonorsChoose.org/Newtown — to support classroom efforts of teachers in Newtown.

Susan C. Miller, professor (research) of health services, policy and practice in the Brown University School of Public Health and lead author of the study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to survey nursing directors at more than 1,900 nursing homes around the country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge of palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care practices.

For more than 30 years, the lecture series has attracted hundreds of science enthusiasts ranging from high school students to retirees, who climb out of bed early on cold winter mornings to hear lectures from top scientists from Princeton University and around the country.

I'm a 29 year old gay man who has been thru school, lived around the country, and have more life experience than most people twice my age.

«This new qualification will provide even more assurance to schools around the country who wish to engage Evolve's Health Mentors.

The folks in Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) probably put more time into building community consensus around their Compass 2015 initiative than any district in the country.

In 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary education.

More than 100 teachers and leaders from around the country were invited to share their approaches to piloting and scaling blended learning in classrooms and schools, which we summarized in our latest report, «From the frontlines: Takeaways from the 2016 Blended and Personalized Learning Conference,» out this week.

As anyone at the company would freely admit, Edison does not foresee making money until it assumes management of many more schools; it would do well, say company sources, to capture around 1 or 2 percent of the 92,000 public schools in the country.

This year's campaign aims to deliver the message to more schools, more children and more communities than ever before, with a record number of lessons being taught on the day in various countries around the world.

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

Schools are taking on markedly more autonomy under the academies programme, multi-academy trusts (MATs) are springing up around the country, and all the talk is now of a «self - improving and school - led system».

In 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary education.In this edition of the EdCast, Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman...

Last year, under the NCLB rules, more than 8,600 schools around the country were listed as «in need of improvement» by state departments of education-less than 10 percent of all public schools in the country.

One of the best examples of this is a partnership called the Flat Classroom Project that started by connecting an international school in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with an American school in Camilla, Georgia, and has since expanded into many collaborative projects that bring together over 5,000 students in more than 30 countries around the world.

In addition, the fellows will have access to the unique network of more than 60 school agencies around the country with whom the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard currently works.

What's more, in an increasing number of schools around the country that I've visited, this isn't a futuristic vision; many of these techniques have already been rendered irrelevant, even as their fundamental cognitive underpinnings remain critical.

Over the last year we've designed the tool with feedback from more than 40 schools and experts, and this spring we built the beta version in collaboration with a dozen middle schools and high schools from around the country.

The Hechinger Report is spending a year exploring this so - called «opportunity gap» and how schools around the country are trying to narrow it by providing more time to learn.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

The school has run the REAL Institute for four years, after fielding numerous requests from educators and administrators around the country wanting to learn more about BDEA's competency - based alternative high school model.

Levin and Feinberg, more than a decade later, have invented something very rare in American education: a way of teaching low - income children that actually works in 36 public middle schools, producing the largest and fastest learning gains around the country.

For its study of visual - arts programs, the Getty Center asked more than 100 art - education experts around the country to identify school districts with strong art curricula.

Gladden Middle School, for example, has 32 student - led clubs, more than many high schools around the country.

He has been influential in changing schools and districts around the country, and was recently a... Read more...

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

Although a vocal minority of parents whose children tend to be enrolled in more affluent schools around the country have refused to let their kids take the Common Core tests, no Sylvanie Williams families have opted out.

The program has now graduated more than 2,500 highly prepared teachers from around the country and the world, the majority of whom are teaching in hard - to - staff schools.

If enough educators around the country use the Institute to inform their curriculum, many more schools — district and charter — could look a lot more like Success Academy schools within the next few years.

Our data - driven, personalized solutions are currently used in over one - third of U.S. schools and more than 60 countries around the world.

But what got in her way of making more progress was her commitment to implementing corporate school reforms that have failed to work as supporters around the country have promised.

«More authorizers around the country are asking their charter networks and schools: what is it about your school that prevents you from posting results like Success's?»

Overview The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) facilitated a series of field trips around the country to help state policy leaders learn more about high school redesign.

More than 700 Texas school board members attended the NSBA conference, which included more than 6,600 trustees, superintendents, administrators, and staff from around the counMore than 700 Texas school board members attended the NSBA conference, which included more than 6,600 trustees, superintendents, administrators, and staff from around the counmore than 6,600 trustees, superintendents, administrators, and staff from around the country.

The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), working with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), facilitated a series of field trips around the country to help state policy leaders learn more about high school redesign.

Around the country, more schools are experimenting with social - emotional learning, buoyed by research that correlates it with positive outcomes, like academic gains and reduced disciplinary incidents.

We will work to bring more information about best practices from school districts around the country that can help provide guidance as Oakland addresses these issues.

As the conversation continues about the need for more quality schools here in Los Angeles and around the country, I think back often to that night in the church basement.

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and have been proliferating for more than 25 years, with thousands of them enrolling as much as 6 percent of America's schoolchildren around the country.

About NASSP The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) is the leading organization of and national voice for middle level and high school principals, assistant principals, and all school leaders from across the United States and more than 35 countries around the School Principals (NASSP) is the leading organization of and national voice for middle level and high school principals, assistant principals, and all school leaders from across the United States and more than 35 countries around the school principals, assistant principals, and all school leaders from across the United States and more than 35 countries around the school leaders from across the United States and more than 35 countries around the world.

The International Baccalaureate first introduced the Middle Years Programme in 1994, and has since been adopted by more than 1,300 schools around the world in more than 100 countries.

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],Schools [NAPCS], 2015).